âNow there we were all in one place: A generation lost in spaceâ sang Don McLean. But weâre not âall in one placeâ any more, and we havenât been for, whatâ30 years? And I blame the demise of the networks (ABC, CBS, NBC). Does anybody watch network TV any more? I donât. Do they still … Continue reading The Rule of Three
Author: Hypatia
What are you getting America for our anniversary?
Weâre coming up on March 15. Four years ago on that date, America experienced a major and unprecedented event: Our government imprisoned us. ALL of us. The word âlockdownâ previously referred to the policy in prisons of confining inmates to their cells when prison authorities feared the inmates were getting rebellious over some (additional) perceived … Continue reading What are you getting America for our anniversary?
A movie about a novel about a movie about a movie
âŚthatâs Argylle. I really didnât wanna see it, thought it was just, like, a Diehard wannabe. But we did go yesterday, because we needed a rainy day entertainment to replace our usual clay pigeon shooting. And I thought it was great! First of all I â¤ď¸ Sam Rockwell, whom I first saw in Jojo Rabbit. … Continue reading A movie about a novel about a movie about a movie
You Wanna Talk COOL?
Trump is the coolest character ever. Weâre talkinâ ice water in the veins. I had kinda a Trump-a-rama yesterday, listening to both his CPac speech and his South Carolina victory speech. The amazing thing to me was the total absence of any self-pity, given the judicial persecution and the unprecedented, ad hominem financial deprivation he … Continue reading You Wanna Talk COOL?
Spoiler alert! âLisa Frankensteinâ review:
if youâre a regulation grownup, you probably havenât even heard of this movie, or if you have you didnât consider seeing it. A teen horror flick, right? Turn of the Screw meets Pretty in Pink, or sumpân. But if youâre at all ll interested in the literary and cinematic tropes that have accreted around Mary … Continue reading Spoiler alert! âLisa Frankensteinâ review:
Lord, I Thank Thee That I am Not As That Man..
So , Alexei Navalny, a political opponent of Putinâs , was imprisoned and has died in jail. And this proves Carlson was treasonous to interview Putin! And this proves we should bankrupt our own country and neglect our own border to prop up Ukraine ( the word means âborderâ, btw) ! Putin is the devil … Continue reading Lord, I Thank Thee That I am Not As That Man..
Epiphany: The Day After the Day Before
Does anybody else remember the 1980s?â(I mean, were you compos mentis back then, not like, were you just getting outa diapers..)âHereâs what I wanna remind you about: back then, our biggest fear, omnipresent, was nuclear annihilation.â And we had grown up with having to periodically get under our desks in grade school, one hand over … Continue reading Epiphany: The Day After the Day Before
Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!
There was a bereavement this week reverberating through L1 and all of the legacy sites.âAnd in the course of interacting online with the widow, I realized something: there are no (other) women posting on those sites. Dorothy Parker, as Iâm sure you know, was a famous wit, critic and poet in the 1920s. One of … Continue reading Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!
..Another âdropped pearlâ to string up with Simonâs:
Increase your Word Power!
I have had trouble ever since high school finding words I didnât know, like when we were sâposed to look up 2 or 3 new words we had read and didnât know the meaning of, and write out their definitions. âThen my roommate told me to read Thomas Wolfe.âShe was right, his oeuvre yielded a … Continue reading Increase your Word Power!

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